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| The local case is an airline ground crew who directed arriving passengers how to get to immigration |
One
of two new Covid-19 cases reported in Hong Kong today, Apr 19, set off an
alarm, as the patient did not travel abroad recently, and is not known to have
been in contact with an infected person.
Despite
this, health officials remain upbeat, as it has been more than a week since the
number of new cases has been in the single digit.
The
two new cases raised the total tally to 1,025. Of these, 602 have been
discharged, while 418 are in hospital, eight of them in critical condition. Four
have died.
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The
case classified as local pertains to a 47-year-old female ground crew of Virgin
Atlantic Airways who was tasked with directing travelers to connecting rides at
the airport for immigration clearance and baggage collection.
She
started having cough on Apr 6 but continued working until last Friday, Apr 17
when she went to hospital. She tested positive for the virus today, and has
been moved to Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Yau Ma Tei.
Dr
Chuang Shuk-kwan of the Centre for Health Protection said 69 colleagues of the
woman will be tested for the virus, including one who had been admitted to
hospital after showing symptoms.
The
woman traveled to Britain in February, but was in Hong Kong during the incubation
period. She lives in Tung Chung.
Chuang
said the woman could have contracted the virus indirectly through environmental
contamination.
She’s
the first case to be identified as local in the past three days. On Friday, a
21-year-old woman was tagged as “possibly local” case since she was found
infected 17 days after arriving from Britain, and after she had completed her
home quarantine without developing symptoms.
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The
second case today is a 35-year-old man who was in Britain from January until
last Friday, Apr 17. He was under compulsory home quarantine in his flat in
Hung Hom and had no symptoms but a swab test showed he was infected.
He
was admitted to United Christian Hospital in Kwun Tong for treatment.
